User:Olivier Dupuis

Olivier Dupuis started swordfighting in 1992 in a re-enactment group, and never stopped teaching other people doing that since 1994. In parallel, he discovered French stick fencing in 1996, became federal teacher in 2000 and obtained in 2004 a professional diploma, something equivalent to a fencing master grade. He discovered HEMA in 1999 but only began to study them seriously since 2001.

Olivier Dupuis is also a member of HEMAC, the Historical European Martial Arts Coalition, and has transcribed a few manuscripts, mostly French but also German and made them publicly available. He also published some papers dedicated to the practise of fencing during the Medieval and Renaissance times in France and Germany.

Wiktenauer contributions

Transcriptions

Olivier Dupuis has transcribed some portion of the following texts.

• Das Ander Theil Des Newen Kůnstreichen Fechtbůches (Cod.Guelf.83.4 Aug.8º)
• Discours de la théorie de la pratique et de l’excellence des armes (André des Bordes)
• Ein new Kůnstliches Fechtbuch im Rappier (Michael Hundt)
• Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)
• Hans Medel Fechtbuch (Cod.I.6.2º.5)
• Joachim Meyers Fäktbok (MS A.4º.2)
• La noble science des ioueurs d'espee (Andre Paurenfeyndt)
• Les secrets du premier livre sur l'espée seule (Henry de Sainct Didier)

Other transcriptions

• A manuscript of a fencing treatise from François Dancie, c.1610 (http://ardamhe.free.fr/biblio/66S230.pdf)
• The fencing treatise on staff fighting from Johann-Georg Pascha (see the article The French staff material from Johann Georg Pasch below)
• The "book of lessons", an anonymous fencing treatise from the beginning of the 17th c. (http://elsamhe.fr/doc/Livre_des_lecons_Heredia-v1.0.pdf)
• The manuscript 62 from Montbeliard, German rapier (https://www.ffamhe.fr/collectionpalas/Edition-Ms-62-Montb%C3%A9liard.pdf)
• The treatise of Michael Hundt : http://www.elsamhe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Hundt_edition_transcription-1.pdf
• The manuscript from Baudoin father and son, Traité de l’escrime ou de la sciance des armes, 1661-64 (https://ffamhe.fr/sources/Edition%20Baudoin_v1.pdf)

Published Works

• Dupuis, Olivier. Joachim Meyer, escrimeur libre, bourgeois de Strasbourg (1537? - 1571), in Cognot, Fabrice (ed.), Maîtres & techniques de combat à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début de la Renaissance. Dijon: AEDEH, 2006.
• Dupuis, Olivier. L'escrime au bâton et à la canne en France, du XVIe au XIXe siècle, in Cognot, Fabrice (ed.), Arts de combat, Théorie & pratique en Europe - XIVe-XXe siècle. Dijon: AEDEH, 2011.
• Dupuis, Olivier. A XVth century fencing tournament in Strasburg, in Acta Periodica Duellatorum, Vol.1. Budapest: Havana Consulting, 2013, pp. 67–79. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apd-2015-0010
• Dupuis, Olivier. Des couteaux à clous ou pourquoi l'épée seule est si peu représentée dans les jeux d'épées et livres de combat au Moyen Âge, in Jaquet Daniel (ed.), L'art chevaleresque du combat. Neuchâtel: éditions ALPHIL-Presses universitaires suisses, 2013.
• Dupuis, Olivier. Organization and Regulation of Fencing in the Realm of France in the Renaissance, in Acta Periodica Duellatorum, Vol.2. Budapest: Havana Consulting, 2014, pp.233-54. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apd-2015-0019
• Dupuis, Olivier. The roots of Fencing from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries in the French Language Area, in Acta Periodica Duellatorum, Vol.3. Budapest: Acta Periodica Duellatorum Association, 2015, pp. 37–62. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apd-2015-0002
• Dupuis, Olivier. Analyse comparée de l’escrime, des barres et du jeu de paume, in e-Phaïstos, Vol.4-1 (2015), pp. 27-42.
• Dupuis, Olivier. The French staff material from Johann Georg Pasch, in Acta Periodica Duellatorum, Vol.4. Budapest: Acta Periodica Duellatorum Association, 2016, pp. 53–101. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apd-2016-0003
• Dupuis, Olivier. The French Fencing Traditions, from the 14th Century to 1630 through Fight Books, in Jaquet Daniel, Karin Verelst and Timothy Dawson (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books. Brill, 2016. pp. 354-375.
• Dupuis, Olivier. Joachim Meyer, free fencer, citizen of Strassburg (?1537-1571) [trans. by J.L. Forgeng], in Jeffrey L. Forgeng The Art of the Sword combat, a 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship (London: Front Line, 2016) pp. 171-190.
• Dupuis, Olivier; Deluz, Vincent. Le Jeu de la Hache: A Critical edition and dating discussion, in Acta Periodica Duellatorum, Vol. 5. Budapest: Acta Periodica Duellatorum Association, 2017, pp. 3–62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/apd-2017-0001
• Mondschein, Ken; Dupuis, Olivier. Martial Sport, and Urban Culture in Early Modern Germany: The Case of Strasbourg, in Journal of Medieval Military History, Vol. 17, The Boydell Press, 2019, pp. 237–57.
• Dupuis, Olivier. A new manuscript of Joachim Meyer (1561), in Acta Periodica Duellatorum, Vol.9-1 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.36950/apd-2021-004
• Dupuis Olivier. Fighting with Long Knife for Leisure or Self-Defense: Discussions Around the Production Contexts of Lecküchner’s Fencing Manuscript, in Chidester Michael (ed.), Kunst und Zettel im Messer, Bavarian State Library Cgm 582, companion volume, Hema Bookshelf : 2022, pp.191-202.

Academic blog articles

• Dupuis, Olivier. "When Fencers and Wrestlers were the Children of the Sun," in Martial Culture in Medieval Town, 26/02/2020, https://martcult.hypotheses.org/780.
• Dupuis, Olivier. "Timeo Clipeos et Plagas Ferentes, or the Accidental Death of a Fencing Master in 1331", in Martial Culture in Medieval Town, 20/04/2020, https://martcult.hypotheses.org/926.